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Fire Up The Grill With Dad This Father’s Day
Fire it Up! I can’t think of a better way to spend time with dad on Father’s Day than grilling up some Fresh Canadian Mushrooms. This fast and delicious recipe will have your dad asking for more. Sweet onions are caramelized with fresh Canadian mushrooms and served on top of thick, juicy hamburger patties. Including fresh mushrooms is a great way to add some tasty nutrients to dad’s meal. One hundred grams (100 g) of fresh mushrooms counts as 1 serving of Fruits & Vegetables. Mushrooms are also low in calories, carbs and fat, they provide vitamins, minerals, fibre, antioxidants, and are the only vegetable with Vitamin D. Not to mention they have no cholesterol or sodium.So, this Father’s Day help dad cook a meal that the whole family can enjoy.
Hamburgers with Caramelized Onions and Mushrooms
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Canadians are Working More
Statistics Canada has released its January 2010 report of payroll employees. It has found that the total hours of a payroll employee increased in January by 0.3%, while non-farm payroll employment remained the same. The timely increase was mostly in transportation and warehousing, health care, construction, mining, quarrying, oil and gas extraction sector and finance.
The finance sector continues to grow, increasing by 15,700 or 2.3% since August 2009 while oil and gas extraction has turned upwards adding, 4,800 payroll jobs during the same time period. Construction rose by 3,500 with health care trailing behind with a 1,600-job growth. Employment services, which includes placement agencies, human resource management and temporary services, rose by 4,100 since last August. Statistics Canada found the employment levels in the motor vehicle assembly, motor vehicle parts as well as body and trailer manufacturing to remain stable.
How The Space Station Helps Our Forestry Industry
Canada’s rich natural resources and reservoir of boreal and temperate forests has helped to ensure our place as the world’s largest exporter of forest products. However, in recent years the forestry industry has been challenged by increasing offshore competition, an economic downturn and sustainability issues. To maximize the potential yield of our lumber, Canadian scientists have turned to an unexpected place: space.
This spring, Canadian white spruce seedlings will be sent to the International Space Station to help researchers understand how trees make wood. Known as APEX-CSA2 (advanced plant experiments on orbit), the experiment is led by Dr. Jean Beaulieu of Natural Resources Canada’s Canadian Wood Fibre Centre in Quebec City, with the close collaboration of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and NASA. After 30 days of growing in space, the trees will be clipped and placed in cold storage until they return to Earth on the space shuttle later this summer. Beaulieu and his team will use a method developed with Genome Canada to compare the genes of plants that grew in space with plants grown under similar conditions on Earth. CSA scientist Dr. Luchino Cohen is optimistic about APEX-CSA2: “This space research may contribute to the development of trees that will better serve Canada’s forestry industry.”
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